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Philadelphia startup GoPuff, founded by Drexel grads, raises $1B(inquirer.com)
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AWS Announces Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB Compatibility)(press.aboutamazon.com)
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New BLEEDINGBIT Vulnerabilities Affect Widely-Used Bluetooth Chips(bleepingcomputer.com)
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Cisco Files Patent Application Around Blockchain, IoT Integration(ethnews.com)
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by johngd 11y ago
This recent one in regards to an AVG Chrome extension is slightly "less-worse" than this TrendMicro issue: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/de...
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OS X El Capitan – Security Fixes(support.apple.com)
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by johngd 11y ago
Careful about installing Influxdb and Telegraf on the same system via RPM (maybe DEB too), they both share common paths and filenames, and cause one (or the other) not to start. https://github.com/influxdb/telegraf&#x2F
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by johngd 11y ago
Have you used cyanite in any meaningful way? The original author's (pyr) repo has been pretty dead. This person has been doing a lot of good work: https://github.com/mwmanley/cyanite
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by johngd 11y ago
Would it be possible to use this method against something like a Java app loaded in tomcat where as to test for bugs within a certain library? Say, for instance that I wanted to see if certain malformed xml posts were able to cause unexpect
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Wink’s Outage Shows Us How Frustrating Smart Homes Could Be(wired.com)
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by johngd 12y ago
Curious how/if Redhat would deal with date-based versioning. 2.6.32 was originally released ~6 years ago and for-better-for-worse their frequent security patching would make the original release date fairly irrelevant.
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by johngd 12y ago
I think the more interesting part is the comments that crept out of the wood work days after the article was posted to HN. hautit 5 days ago (1 comment - account created 324 days ago) Get over it, CBInsights, your UX sucks. theUXclub 4 days
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by johngd 12y ago
Re #1: Correct. Re #2: Unless you are a contractor. I was shocked to learn how much the about-to-retire ~20-30 year guys were making compared to my mid/senior level long-term contractor position was paying.
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by johngd 12y ago
I am not sure about medium-risk public trust positions, but for high-risk public trust positions (think access to PII, social security # type stuff) they require an in depth personal history, including a meet and greet with an investigator
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by johngd 12y ago
Indeed. You can do this using the BMW manufacturer software (which is comically not hard to find), at least for the E9* series of BMW's. Not sure about the newer F3* series, but I wouldn't be surprised.
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by johngd 12y ago
There was also this one[1] from a couple of years ago (that you may be referring to?) where with a inexpensive kit, a thief could intercept the drivers key fob transmissions to open the car, and then a ODB programmer to pair the car with a
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by johngd 12y ago
My car's USB port can barely charge my Samsung Galaxy 5.... I can't imagine how long it would take via radio wave.
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CES: This router can power your devices wirelessly from 15 feet away (Energous)(engadget.com)
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by johngd 12y ago
"Has everybody in IETF forgotten CNN's exponential traffic graph from 14 years ago?" Any ideas?
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by johngd 12y ago
As someone who is in the process of cutting the cord (just ordered some gear, very excited!), I am hoping that the KODI(XBMC)/MythTV/etc community will work on something that integrates with this service as I can only imagine it w
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by johngd 12y ago
Yea, you're right; I thought that some context might be needed after I posted. They aren't related whatsoever, however the thought process of being put into the same position as the security research in this article is what made t
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by johngd 12y ago
I'll add my two cents a non-Brit: I have never heard of the ICO until this thread. Someone please correct me, but the closest thing we have in the states may be contacting the Attorney General? I say this thinking of the argument the r
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by johngd 12y ago
They have 3 other brands: http://photobox.co.uk http://uk.paper-shaker.com https://sticky9.com Only the later seems to enforce SSL. I registered a dummy account on photobox, username/password/e
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by johngd 12y ago
The author may have, mistakenly, attributed a quote as fact from one of the interviewees. Interestingly enough, from the same link, Dupont appears to have invented/optimized a moisture-proof cellulose, which may have been what the auth
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by johngd 12y ago
I've taken a personal record number of UberX rides, 3, in the last week. I prefer not taking them if I can help it, but safety trumps politics sometimes. Regardless, each driver I met was absolutely fantastic; very friendly and profess
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by johngd 12y ago
This is very true. Logistically (not technically) this wasn't an option - read: business decision. Before the days where everything had an API, and things were done with spreadsheets, and billing codes, and product codes, and typos...
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by johngd 12y ago
Very true, however the incidents I reference this was definitely not the case. In fact for a while we would get Bing (MSN bot back then) crawl us everyday at the same time, almost on the dot. Let me plug project honeypot (which I am in no w
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by johngd 12y ago
My main focus for the entirety of my career has been on internet facing consumer web applications. I have seen many, many, DOS attacks from IRC bots to Ukrainian web scrapers to Chinese get-lucky wordpress exploit scanners. Most of these ca
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by johngd 12y ago
Absolutely. I think it is a very difficult problem to solve as companies grow larger and larger and rise to behemoth proportions all while trying to tackle something that is relatively new (the security concerns of today, as opposed to say
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by johngd 12y ago
Anecdotally, I knew some guys who worked at (or with?) the global security division at Sony US HQ. The story went that each of the Sony subsidiaries[1] had their own security division that was largely autonomous for reasons of politics and

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